ATOMS, THUNDERSTORMS SHAKING UP OPERA WORLD
SANTA FE, NM—The Santa Fe Opera’s fascination with 21st-century works came to a head with “Doctor Atomic,” which sold out all six performances up to a month ahead, to the wonderment of all. The box office tsunami for the historical opera about creating The Bomb was partly because of the hot John Adams-Peter Sellars creative team, and partly because its development under Robert Oppenheimer occurred right up the road in Los Alamos during World War Two. As one local put…